Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,198, Simon Flynn, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Flynn, Simon
S. 42,198
CONTENTS

Pennsylvania.
Simon Flynn, 4 Capt Wilson private, Pennsylvania line 4 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of April, 1818. and sent to Hon: Genl Wallace, of Pennsylvania, House of Reps U.S.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept. 1818. 5 1/31 mo. $40.87 $40.87
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
Continued
20/14 Sept 1818
Dauphin 60

Notification sent November 9. 1820. to John C. Bucher, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

I hereby certify that it appears by the Pay-roll of the Pennsylvania Line (in this Office) of the revolutionary War that Simon Flinn was a private in the 11. regiment, that he received depreciation on his pay which was granted by resolution of Congress and the laws of this State to those who served three years or more. — Witness my hand and seal of Office this 31 day of March 1818.
Geo. Bryan Aud. Genl.

State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County
On this Eleventh day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court - being a Court of record in and for the County & State aforesaid Simon Hlynn aged eighty four years resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law - doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted under Captain Wilson in the Pennsylvania Line, commanded by Col. Irvine the date of the original declaration was made on the 31 st March 1818 when he received a Certificate No 217.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule
No property - no family - no trade and he is in every manner incompetent to assist himself by labour - being scarcely able to walk. Sworn to and declared on the 11 th day of September 1820 in Open Court Before John Macheney Atty. This is Simon Hlynn mark.
Dauphin County
I, John Macheney, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Dauphin do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Harrisburg the 15 th day of September A.D. 1820.
John Macheney
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County.

Please direct to John C. Pucher, Harrisburg Pa.
Immediate attention is humbly solicited — — to the pleadings of want.

Genl. Wallau.
Pennsylvania Oct 20: 1818 C
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Dauphin County.
State of Pennsylvania ss.
Be it remembered that on the 21st day of March A. D. 1818 before me Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appeared Simon Flynn of the said County a Resident Citizen of the United States and being duly sworn according to law did depose and say That he enlisted in the Spring of the year 1776 at Little York in York County Pennsylvania in Captain Wilsons Company of Infantry attached to Col. Irvin's regiment Called the 6th Regiment Penn a . Troops. which was raised for the defence of American Liberty. That he was marched to Canada and fought at the Battle of the Three rivers, That he was later prisoner on Lake Champlain on the 22 d July 1776, That he was released on parole and arrived in the United States in the fall of the same year. That he again enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Spring of the Year 1777 in Captain Grubbs Company attached to Col. Pattons Independent regiment of Pennsylvania troops - That he served in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war from and after the date of his last aforesaid enlistment for and during the term of four Years - That he was honorably discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey in the Year 1781 That he is upwards of eighty Years of age infirm poor and helpless. And that he hath no pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and if any such there be he doth hereby fully and entirely release the same to the United States.
Simon Flynn Mark
Sworn and subscribed before me the 21 March 1818
Obed Fahnestock
Com th . of Penn a .
Dauphin County ss.
I Obed Fahnestock one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby Certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that Simon Flynn now residing in the said County of Dauphin served in the revolutionary war as set forth in the foregoing deposition against the Common enemy - which together with a Certificate from the Auditor General of the said Com th . I respectfully transmitt to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Obed Fahnestock

Pennsylvania, ss.
In the Name and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA,
Monday
OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH,
To all to whom these presents shall come, Sends Greeting:
Know ye, That Obed Fahnestock, Esquire,
whose name is - subscribed to the instruments of writing hereunto annexed was at the time of subscribing the same an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Dauphin
in the said Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned: And full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts accordingly.
Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - and of the Commonwealth the forty second.
By the Governor.
James Trimble Deputy

42 198 INVALID.
Revy _____
File No. _____ 42 198
_____ Simon H. Linn
_____ Dr. Wm. L. Linn
Act: _____ 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 _____, Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870.]